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A review by da_bos
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera
3.0
This was a book club selection. (Full disclosure: it was the one book I didn’t vote for.)
It seems silly for someone who is no longer a young adult to say about a YA book that he found it, well, juvenile. Cute, sure, but not particularly compelling. The authors try hard to be original yet the end result is pretty derivative and follows familiar mechanism of plot and perspective.
Three stars because I don’t want to be mean, and because I am not the target audience. My personal take on it would probably be fewer.
It seems silly for someone who is no longer a young adult to say about a YA book that he found it, well, juvenile. Cute, sure, but not particularly compelling. The authors try hard to be original yet the end result is pretty derivative and follows familiar mechanism of plot and perspective.
Three stars because I don’t want to be mean, and because I am not the target audience. My personal take on it would probably be fewer.